What are you even trying to say?

There are, I guess, mom and pop "food carts" around midtown and downtown, but most of the small businesses he's proclaiming he wants to save are in the neighborhoods most workers live in and commute away from during the day....

"Fake" trans women isn't the reason the city is abandoning the program. Just like conservatives pretending trans women are faking to go into women's bathrooms and abuse cis women, this is a fake scenario.

...Which is an 180 from what he said on the campaign trail when he praised hybrid work and said he'd maintain it. He just says things. He believes what the voters want before the election and what the donors want after the election.

I think he also needs to understand that city workers vote. And most of them are fucking pissed. Most cops don't even live here so he can't just rely on them.

You don't need to take hormones or have surgery to be trans. That's not how this works. Medical transition is incredibly expensive and not accessible to everyone. It shouldn't be a litmus test for whether someone is trans or not.

...they're still trans. Hope that clears everything up for you.

Ok, when you read "going back dozens of years" do you think that means this only involves cases from 20 years ago? Or a time span of cases ranging from 2-5 years ago to others that took place 20 years ago? I don't know why you don't understand how ranges work.

Because, again, top news this week was a cop who was planting evidence and lying on the stand between 2012-2015. That is not 20 years ago. Current cops still engage in this behavior.

"Going back" means there are cases as recent as a few years ago and spanning multiple decades in the past. Speaking of learning about reading comprehension...

De Blasio prioritized parks. Parks without Borders and the Community Parks Initiative were both under him and, at least in my opinion, it was a Renaissance for improvements to existing parks and construction of new parks.

...is it not clear that the perpetrator would be the one stripped of their pension?

These cases aren't all from 30 years ago, what are you even talking about. The most recent case that the DA bungled was from a cop who was doing this between 2011-2015. Over 130 convictions dropped.

Cops still do this.

Take away their pensions. Make them pay. Make current NYPD know if they do this they will be fired and stripped of pension and be made to pay. NYPD are unaccountable for the bad work they do.

DOT is having the same issues with gathering supplies to do repairs. It's hard enough to get what they need in a timely manner, but they're also being asked to use the cheapest materials and solutions possible (hence why we almost never have fully protected bike lanes when they know we should).

That's very nice and all, but the city can't do that without the staff to plant, maintain and inspect the trees. This administration doesn't care about Parks, so it's unlikely we'll see any significant budget pushes for Parks this term. De Blasio had many faults, but under him the Parks department was thriving and really pushing to revive, rebuild and construct new Parks all cover the city. I'm not seeing that same energy in the last year.

The kicker is Parks does have a lot of in-house designers, engineers and gardeners. There's no reason any city money should be given to private contractors when we could just increase the budget and fulfill projects with in-house staff. The real issue (outside of city staff fleeing and not being rehired) is procurement. Supplies are increasingly expensive and the city has pretty strict rules when it comes to who they can buy from.

For anyone wondering why this unit existed:

>Nationwide, trans women are usually incarcerated with cis men and are many times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other people behind bars.

When someone is put in Rikers awaiting trial, they are wards of the City. The City is responsible for keeping everyone in Rikers safe and alive. We are liable for lawsuits when we don't do that. Willingly putting trans women in all male units where they are almost certain to be physically and sexually abused is negligent and bordering criminal. There's no harm in segregating trans women into small units. Eric Adams' refusal to give a shit is fully in line with his habit of placing anti-LGBTQ+ Evangelical preachers into high paying appointed positions.

NYC Parks is currently understaffed (morale is abysmal) and the Adams'administration doesn't give a shit about these goals or the NYC Parks budget. Parks are not his priority. He's wholly focused on 1. crime (real or percieved) and 2. Enriching private companies in "public private partnerships." Unless the park is managed by EDC next to a billion dollar development, he could care less.

>But the mayor, who did not meet a campaign promise to double funding for the parks department, has so far resisted those goals, which could see the city plant another 1 million trees by the end of the decade. Instead, he has budgeted for approximately 20,000 trees annually, a slight dip from prior years.

>From a philosophical standpoint point, I’m really wondering who bears responsibility.

The Hospital Administration who didn't properly staff the hospital.

Do you think that hospitals have no nurses when there are strikes? Based on some of the comments I've been seeing here, I think many people believe that.

The hospital routinely hires travel nurses and did so for this. Looks like they understaff their nurses who they contracted for the strike the exact same way they understaff their full time nurses. Looks like the nurses were 100% right and justified in their strike.

>the nurses were not doing their jobs.

How many nurses were there taking care of how many patients? You've a very warped perspective of what was happening here. It's not one-on-one nurse to patient. And in many of these hospitals it's one nurse for 20 patients. And especially in an ER, with some of the worst ratios, you will be left alone if you aren't a high priority for your ailment. Blame that on the hospital.

My mom was a nurse too and I can't imagine being as entitled as you are knowing what goes on behind the scenes. They are doing what they can with limited resources and staff-power available to them. We shouldn't be taking that out on nurses, we should be angry with the hospital admin who make millions annually in salary and allow ERs to be this way.

The hospitals aren't empty of staff during strikes. Hospitals bring on traveling nurses (and pay them handsomely).

Traveling nurses have experience. If Mt. Sinai didn't bother to bring on contract nurses who know what they're doing, that's 100% on the hospital.

You got it! The hospital would be at fault for unsafe staffing ratios. Not the nurses who went on strike warning everyone about their unsafe staffing ratios.